Six-time Grand Slam winner Boris Becker said winning Wimbledon at age 17 was too much for him to handle and that unrealistic expectations affected the rest of his career and life after tennis.

"I'm happy to have won three, but maybe 17 was too young," Becker, 57, told BBC Sport of his Wimbledon titles in 1985, 1986 and 1989. "I was still a child."

The German also captured major titles at the Australian Open (1991, 1996) and U.S. Open (1989) as part of a legendary singles and doubles career. But the former No. 1 player also had problems in his private life, including financial difficulties that resulted in going to prison for eight months for illicitly transferring large amounts of money and hiding assets after he was declared bankrupt.

Becker traces it back to pressure created by his ea

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